Straight Americans need... an education of the heart and soul. They must understand - to begin with - how it can feel to spend years denying your own deepest truths, to sit silently through classes, meals, and church services while people you love toss off remarks that brutalize your soul.

[p[p[p[p - you want to know what's wrong with being gay? simple - it is NOT normal no matter what you claim.

proof - nature intended for two sexes to exist for a reason. if we could change ours like the snails and still reproduce it would have been fine. however imagine a world where everyone's gay - humanity will cease to exist within one generation. and yeah - you CAN"T use any other of your abominations such as surrogate mothers, egg implantation, etc.

p.s. before you start judging just to clarify - I am an atheist, studied biology, work in the medicine field, not close-minded. I have a lot of gay friends - that's their choice. You can't seem to understand that what everybody do under the covers in their own time is NOT my business. I don't go around parading my heterosexuality demanding more rights and recognition? What makes gay people more special? They are the only one rubbing their choice in everyone elese's faces. Well, to this I object

I sure as hell hope that you don't think that resolving conflicts is the same as normal sexual behaviour. Point is as I said before - what everyone chooses to do on their own time, be it cross-dress, BDSM, anal sex, toys, experiment with same sex is fine. As long as no one rubs it in my face. I am not interested in anyone's dirt if you know what I mean. I don't discriminate and I think most people are too scared to even have an opinion on topics concerning gays, jews,etc for discrimination to even be topic of discussion. Hence I am tired of listening about their rights...

as far as biology is concerned - take a chill pill. Experimenting is one thing, however in the natural life course the cimps you pointed out mate with a partner from the opposite sex, right? So, don't shove in my face your attempt to be creative and cool - in the long run answer this question - if homosexuality is normal and ok, having it turn into the norm, how long before humans cease to exist as a species? Or maybe you have interesting insights on how zigots form from two sperm cells and/or two eggs? 10x in advance

Did some of you not read the introduction? These images were submitted by gay individuals to help demonstrate that it is nature, not nurture. Honestly, why would anyone choose to be gay with all the homophobic cave men around. Let's try a little tolerance!

Instead of jumping the gun and start badmouthing this post why not read this introduction...since you can so easily take offence AND write about it I'm pretty sure you are not a bunch of illiterate aniamls. It goes like this:

These are the pictures that were personally submitted to the site Born This Way by gay guys and girls. The pictures are from their childhood "showing the beginnings of their innate LGBT selves"

I'm pretty sure you'd all have thought "mmmh, gay" while looking at those CUTE and FUNNY pictures if the title didn't mention the word "gay". Seriously. What's the big deal?BTW, homoxesuality isn't a question of biology, my dear xenomorph. Because you're studying biology doesn't mean it explains everything. And the word "normal" is way too subjective to even exist.

natural sexual behaviours do not (in most cases) override natural reproductive events i.e. sperm is needed for fertilisation of egg. that's what i meant by sexual behaviours dont have to be mutually exclusive. you seem to think that being gay totally removes one's ability to reproduce. fertilisation of the egg is all.

like the bonobos they still have their males and females despite their colourful sexual proclivities. I did not in any way imply that humans are better off with having males/females remove from the population and I have no idea where you get that from.

I'm not here to be creative and cool but claiming that you studied biology and an atheist yet showing so much arrogance is very disappointing.

I agree with phil, xenomorph. Since homosexuality appears in many species, including humans, and it's not weeded out by natural selection, there must be some underlying reason why those "gay genes" still exists. Otherwise, homosexuality would have disappeared a long, long time ago. That also means, that since it happens in nature, there is nothing wrong with it. As an atheist, you surely must agree that if there isn't no higher being giving us moral codes, there is only one moral code that can be followed and it's nature. Oh, and Annamolly, homosexuality is a question of biology in the end. Like every single "choice" we make.

I was one of the gay kids whose picture is included in that montage. The purpose of the blog was to illicit some understanding and perhaps a little empathy. I believe for the most part it achieved that goal. There will always be folks who just don't get it. Honestly, you don't have to. A little compassion and tolerance never hurt anyone in this world. Give it a try. However, the world won't stop turning for the rest of us if you simply can't. You'll just be left a little behind.

WHAT THE HECK IS THIS i cant belive some parents dress their kids like this and its offensive to gay people like myself its just sad that kids get this done to them if they are gay THATS FINE but still what in the world were their parents thinking IF they decided to dress them up like that BUT if the kids dressed themselves then this comment has no meaning so :(

Wow, what a bunch of dimwits some of the posters here are. There has never been a SINGLE human civilization where homosexuality didn't exist, something we know from the writing, myths, art, laws, and graffiti they left behind. It's simply a fact of life, part of the human condition, and it's not going to go away just to please YOU, so get over it! And statements like Xenomorph's have always confused me. "The everybody was gay then mankind would disappear!" First of all, no it wouldn't. Egg+sperm would still = baby. Second of all, apparently YOU think homosexuality is SO appealing that if there wasn't prejudice against it then EVERYBODY would turn gay! Does that make any sense? No, it doesn't. But it sure says a heck of a lot about YOU! Third, in an academic study they showed people photos of kids about the same age as the kids in these pictures and asked them to guess which ones turned out to be straight or gay. (The poses weren't as stereotypical as these are.) People were able to predict which kids turned out to be gay with a stunning amount of accuracy. Study after study has shown that sexuality is determined VERY early, probably in the womb, the same way left-handedness is determined before birth. So again, get over it.